Two new studies have found that whale song has structural similarities to human languages, especially when it comes to ...

All known human languages display a surprising pattern: the most frequent word in a language is twice as frequent as the ...

Whales use moans, snores, chirps and cries that are known as whale song. And now, a new study has found that whale song is ...

The blue whale is the largest animal on the planet. It consumes enormous quantities of tiny, shrimp-like animals known as ...

Two studies reveal that the communication systems of most cetaceans examined adhere to the principles of efficiency and ...

Just like popular songs on TikTok, new humpback whale songs can rapidly spread across regions and populations to replace ...

Despite humans and whales being separated by millions of years of evolution, our vocalizations follow the same principle ...

Humpback whale songs share structural similarities with human language, suggesting complex communication patterns.

The sounds that make up humpback whale songs follow some of the same statistical rules seen in human languages, which may be ...

Whale song can be as efficient as – and, in some cases, more efficient than – human communication, according to a new study in Science Advances ...

Deep in the Pacific, humans have tracked a mysterious whale’s call for decades—but no other whale seems to respond. And now, we might be running out of time to find the source.

Researchers found that whale feces contain iron and non-toxic copper, essential nutrients for ocean ecosystems. The study ...